Vocal and instrumental note-reading device



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E. G. WIOKEBSHAM. VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL NOTBREADING DEVICE.

'No. 605,157. Patented June 7,1898.

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VOCAL AND lNSTllUMENTAL NOTE-READlN-GDEVICE;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 605,157, dated June 7, 1898. Application filed May 17, 1897. BoriaLNo. 637,018. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ENOCH G.WICKERSHAM,

- a citizen of the United States, residing at Grover Hill, in the county of Paulding and 5- State of Ohio, have invented a new and usef ul Vocal and .Instruniental Note-Reading Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a certain new and useful device designed to enable a person to note system in music, also showing thev relation of the instrument, such as piano or violin,-to the written notes 'of'the scale in all their variations; I attain these .objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is the most simple form, indicating names of notes only; Fig.2, the device adapted to the violin; Fig. 3, for organ or piano;

Fig. 4, slide q and gage is; Fig. 5, slide e of organ or piano chart. 4

This invention consists of cardboard orother material in sheet form having afacecard h, with the musical staff ruled thereon, representing one or both cleifs. Upon this staif and diagonally across it notes representing the musical scale are made by means of a belt-punch or chisel making perforations rated notes 'm, and near these the lettering of the staif should be marked. Another card I:

beneath the face-card h. Upon the left end of this staif is the sign of the cleif, and tothe right a group of flats or sharps is located in I proper order, the flats on one side and the sharps on the other, which necessitates the reversing of the slide when a change is made from flats to sharps, or vice veisa. If the slide t'is movedto the right, all the sharps or flats reeede from view and only the sign of the cleif remains. 'It is in position to represent the key of 0. Through the perforations m 50. and on the slide 71 are figures or characters to indicate the names of the diiferent notes of m through the face-card h. Each line and. space should be thus representedby perfothe scale, or instead of or in connection with may be marked the chords or the fingering of the instrument. By moving the slide'to the left one flat or sharp is brought to view and the scale is again marked, as before. In this mannerall the signatures, with their respece tive scales, are indicated. 7

This invention is appliedto the reading of notes on the violin, guitar, or other stringed instrument ofthis class as follows: There is diagrammed at the upper left-hand corner of the face-card h a representation of the fingerboard, with its'half-steps indicated by perforations m through the card h and marks to represent the strings, which are continued from the diagram, curved, and run directly: to the perforated note on the staif which the string represents, said note to be indicated on the slide with an 0 to show that it is played through the perforations m in the diagram and show the location'of the letters on the in- -7 .Withopen string, the intermediate notes be-. ing marked to indicate the fingering, as before described. Letters on the slide '5 show strument and their relation to the letters on g the stafi. By the continuation of the strings.

from the finger-board diagram to their corre sponding notes on the staff their relation is I i made apparent at a glance. By shifting the slide all the changesof'the notes of the stafi as well as of theinstrument are indicated in all their variations, showing the signatures, letters, fingering, and chords, yet showing but one signature, &c., at a'time.

As adapted to the reading of notes with the beneath, the 'lettering'of' the instrument is l is a slot in the card 72., throughshown. which may be seen an indicator j on the slide t, which may be set to the letter or key desired. Shifting the slide opens 01' closes the letters on the keyboard-diagram as influenced Each black and white key organ or piano the'staff is drawn above, and

by the signature. The lettering ofblaclrkeys is changed from flats to sharps by a second slide, upon which these letters are Written. This slide q is riveted to and operated by a gage 7t at the top. In connection with. this change the slide 2' is reversed. lhe arrangement of the perforations in this chart are identical with the keys of an organ or piano and are shown in Figs. 3 and 5.

1. The combination With a musical chart having perforated notes on a musical staff through which notes may be read of a slide on card beneath provided with characters indicating the names of notes, lingering, or chords, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a musical chart, of the slide '6, havingthe different signatures in sharps and flats and their corresponding scales and lettering of the instrument; with v the face-card. h, having scales with perforated notes, through which the Various scales may be viewed,substantially as described, and l" or the purpose specified.

' ENOOII \VICKERSIIAM. Vitnesses:

J. E. EATON, CHAS. A. Bum. 

